Android/iOS (Select Cities): Don’t have time to run out of the office to grab a bite to eat? Or just feeling lazy, but need that carton of milk from the grocery store? Postmates will take your order and deliver it to you in under an hour.After you place an order from the Postmates app, a Postmates courier is automatically assigned to deliver your order. The courier will then buy the item(s) and deliver it to you in under an hour. You can also track the courier in real-time so you don’t miss the delivery. The minimum delivery charge is $5 and goes up depending on the distance between the pickup and dropoff points. There’s also a 9% service fee added to your total. So it isn’t cheap by any means, but could be useful from time to time.Postmates is adding more cities, but is currently only available in San Francisco, New York, Chicago, Washington D.C., Seattle, and Los Angeles.Postmates (Free) | iTunes App StorePostmates (Free) | Google Play Store via Android Police

Google gives you a bunch of options for setting up filters to organize your email, but it lacks a few settings to make it seriously powerful. Digital Inspiration shows off how to use a script to power up those filters even more. Digital Inspiration’s script lets you set up filters so messages are marked as spam if there are a lot of recipients, if the subject has too many characters, if a message has a set number of hyperlinks, and more. The script then runs in the background and organizes your email just like the official Gmail filters. If Gmail’s filters aren’t doing it for you, this should help. Head over to Digital Inspiration for a guide on setting it all up. Advanced Gmail Filters That Aren’t Available in Gmail | Digital Inspiration

You can make most PC games look great with the right graphics tweaks. But if you really want to get down and dirty—and have the graphics card to handle it—you can actually run your games at a higher resolution than your monitor supports (sort of). The folks at LinusTechTips explain how.

You’ve built a gaming PC and it’s time to start playing, but you’re thinking your… Read moreRead onThis “trick” is really the usage of a lesser-known type of anti-aliasing, called Ordered Grid Super Sampling Anti-Aliasing. Unlike regular anti-aliasing, which just smoothes out the edges of your game’s graphics, OGSSAA basically sends a higher-than-native resolution signal to your monitor, and then downsamples it to your monitor’s native resolution for a sharper image all around. LinusTechTips forum user tabuburn explains it well:

[For example,] Your display is natively able to support a resolution up to 1920×1080. Using Downsampling it will send out a signal to tell your display to output a resolution of 2560×1440. Now on a display that can output a maximum resolution of 1080p has about 2 million pixels while a 1440p display outputs 3.7 million. Downsampling does not increase the amount of pixels being displayed. It can’t go beyond that. What it does is bring that 1440p resolution to your 1080p display and compresses it to fit inside the screen. The effect it has is similar to zooming out on a lower resolution picture.

Of course, this has downsides. It’s very inefficient and will decrease performance quite a bit, and many consider it similar to overclocking—so it carries some risk of damage as well (at least in theory). This isn’t one of those settings you would use for all your games, but it could be useful for some crappy console ports, or games without adequate settings. It’s also not for the faint of heart, but it’s a pretty interesting little experiment. Check out the video above for information on what hardware it works on, its upsides and downsides, and the full instructions.How to Run Higher Than the Maximum Resolutions on Your Display | LinusTechTips ForumImprove Visual Quality by Running your Monitor at a Non-Native Resolution | LinusTechTips on YouTube

Google Now, the mind-reading personal assistant for iOS and Android, has gotten a ton of updates lately, making it the perfect smartphone companion for…well, anything. Here’s a list of the coolest stuff it can do.Google Now does a ton of awesome stuff, and it’s releasing new features all the time. For an up to date list of what it can do—and how to enable the different cards—check out Google’s list of cards available in Now (and a list of some services it integrates with).You spend a lot of time driving (or riding transit) between work, events, seeing friends, and everything else. Google Now can make it a lot easier. If you enter your work address in its settings, it’ll always let you know how long it’ll take to get there, so you don’t get unexpectedly caught in traffic. It supports driving and public transit, and will even remember where you parked or tell you when the last train leaves. You can even share your commute with your family and friends, so they can check up on when you’re getting home.Google Now is awesome, but as customization nuts (like us) might expect, it’s not exactly the… Read moreRead onYou probably already know about this one, since it’s been there since the beginning. By entering your favorite sports teams and most-followed stocks in Now’s settings, you can get an update on how your team is winning, how your stocks are plummeting, or vice versa. It’ll also track stocks you’ve searched for and ones you’re tracking on Google Finance.If you’re leaving town, Google Now knows it—and can provide you with a ton of useful information. If you’re flying, it’ll keep track of your flight (using information from your email confirmation), let you know when to leave the airport, and have your boarding pass ready for you when you get there. It’ll also help you out with hotel information, car rentals, show you nearby places and events, photo spots, and—if you’re out of the country—even provide you with cards for translation and currency conversion. Basically, any time you’re out of town, pull up Google Now and it’ll have everything you might need at the ready.If you have Location Reporting and Location History enabled on your phone, Google Now will pop up a card once a month that estimates how far you’ve walked or biked, based on your phone’s accelerometer (Android only). Just remember: if you have these features enabled, that means Google is logging everywhere you go, so make sure you’re comfortable with that before you turn it on.You probably already know that Google Now will provide tracking information for packages you’ve ordered online. But it also helps you shop in the real world, too. If you walk into a mall, it’ll tell you what stores are available, and if you’ve researched a product recently, it’ll even tell you if you’re near a store that carries it. Talk about handy!When you search for a movie, book, TV show, music artist, or video game on Google, it’ll remember—and give you information about it in Google Now. You can even tell Google to remind you about upcoming episodes, so you know when your favorite shows start. If you head into Now’s Customize menu, you can tell it your cable provider and on demand services (like Netflix and Hulu) and it’ll adjust its cards for those services.If you have an network-connected TV, things get even more interesting. Google Now will detect your TV and you can tell it to “listen” to what you’re watching. It’ll then provide you with more information about that show.If you have a concert or other event coming up—and you were emailed the ticket—Google Now will remind you of the event, tell you when to leave, and give you one-tap access to the email with your tickets. It also integrates with Fandango so you can scan the tickets right from Google Now.You probably know that Google Now will give you information on things you’ve recently searched, but it can do more than that. It’ll also alert you of breaking news, storm warnings, other important things. Plus, you can tell it to keep you up to date on certain people or let you know when your favorite blog updates with a new post.As if all the above weren’t enough, you can tell Google Now to remind you of just about anything, right when you need it the most. Bring up Google Now and tell it to remind you of something at a certain time, or when you reach a certain location. For example, you could have it “Remind me to call Mom in an hour” or “Remind me to take out the trash when I get home.” If you have events in Google Calendar, it’ll remind you when they’re happening—and, if they have a location, when you should leave to get there on time. It’ll even remind you when you have bills you need to pay.With Google I/O’s many announcements came a long awaited feature. Reminders. For the longest… Read moreRead onOf course, Google Now does most of the above on its own, but you can ask it just about anything and get a smart answer, too. Google Now’s voice commands can do anything from make conversions to defining words to telling you who the president of the United States is. Here are some examples of awesome stuff you can ask it, and here’s an infographic of the different commands it can answer to, like calling people, navigating you somewhere, or playing music from a certain artist.Voice search is one of those features that seems silly, but is awesome once you start using it. Not … Read moreRead onThere are a ton of cool things you can do with Google Now, but with Google constantly adding more… Read moreRead onAndroid: Today, Google updated its Search app to add a new card that will remember where you parked your car. Additionally, while previous versions… Read moreAndroid: Google Now is our favorite virtual assistant for Android, and now it’s even better. Google unveiled several new cards, including one… Read moreYou probably know your phone can pinpoint your location for GPS, local search, or the weather. Hopefully, you also know that means your phone keeps… Read moreWhen you go to a mall, finding a list of stores can sometimes be tough. Google Now is finally offering an easy fix for that. Read moreGoogle Now has gotten a lot of new features today, and it isn’t slowing down. Now, it can tell you if you’re near a store that carries a… Read moreThe Newsroom, Game of Thrones, Archer and basically all the other good shows are over for the year. When are they coming back? Well, Google can tell… Read moreAndroid: Continuing the never-ending onslaught of new Google Now cards, Google has begun rolling out a feature that will remind you of upcoming… Read more

Formatting your hard drive with exFAT is a great way to make it usable between both Windows and OS X. If you want to back up with Time Machine but access your backup from Windows, it’s possible to use an exFAT volume with a few tweaks. Using an external drive between Mac and Windows computers can be a hassle, since you constantly… Read moreRead onMac OS X Hints has the details at the link below. You’ll need to be comfortable with a little terminal work, and we’re not sure we’d trust our only backup to something that’s unsupported, but it could be useful in a few situations. Hit the link below for the details.Using Time Machine on unsupported volumes | Mac OS X HintsPhoto by ryanmotoNSB.

Can’t find your Most Recent news feed after Facebook’s latest update on your iOS or Android device? Don’t worry, it’s still there. It’s just hidden away in a new location.Here’s how to access your Most Recent news feed:Tap the “More” button in the Facebook app.Scroll to the Feeds section and tap on the grey “Feeds” header to expand it.Most Recent should show up in the expanded list, and you can tap on it to view your news feed.If that’s too much of a hassle, you can always stick with the web version, which lets you view the Most Recent news feed more easily.How to find ‘Most Recent’ Newsfeed in Facebook 10.0 for iOS | iMore via TUAWFacebook’s app isn’t as bad as it used to be, but it still has its fair share of problems: it’s a little slow, drains your battery… Read more

Android: Continuing the never-ending onslaught of new Google Now cards, Google has begun rolling out a feature that will remind you of upcoming bills. Provided you have email scanning turned on, of course.The feature probably won’t be able to check all bills (notably because not all bill reminder emails include due dates or amounts due), but it can be a handy reminder for those that it does support. The features seems to be quietly rolling out and may not be available to all users just yet. If you have email scanning turned on, though, take a look!Google Now Bill Reminder Integration Rolling Out Now | Android PoliceAndroid: Today, Google updated its Search app to add a new card that will remember where you parked your car. Additionally, while previous versions… Read more